Crime scene: Bienzle and his worst case

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Bienzle and his worst case
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SWR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 657 ( List )
First broadcast February 25, 2007 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Hartmut Griesmayr
script Felix Huby
production Brigitte Dithard
music Joe Mubare
camera Hans-Jörg Allgeier
cut Katja Habermehl
occupation

Bienzle and his worst case is an episode of the crime series Tatort . The first broadcast of the contribution produced by Südwestrundfunk under the direction of Hartmut Griesmayr took place on February 25, 2007 on First German Television . It is the 657th episode of the film series as well as the twenty-fifth and at the same time the last with the Stuttgart inspector Ernst Bienzle.

action

For two days the whole of Stuttgart worried about the fate of the missing eleven-year-old Elena Hagen. Despite the best efforts of the police, the girl can only be found dead in a forest. Commissioners Bienzle and Gächter are just as shocked as all their colleagues. The fact that the child wears different clothes than at the time of the kidnapping reminds Gächter immediately of the unsolved case of Christine Meinhold from the previous year. At that time, Biencel's colleague Hartwin Grossmann was in charge of the case and he still considers petty criminal Kai Anschütz to be the perpetrator. However, Bienzle does not want to commit himself too quickly and has all relatives, acquaintances, friends and neighbors of the Hagens questioned. Nevertheless, Kai Anschütz was summoned and questioned. He still protests his innocence, which his probation officer Gunter Heinze underlines, so that Anschütz remains on the loose.

Another suspect appears to Bienzle, Elena Hagen's music teacher. He has a very intimate relationship with his students and even gives them private lessons.

Bienzle had noticed a music box in Elena Hagen's room, which, according to her parents, was not bought by them. He can also discover a similar music box among the Meinholds. However, this is a mass product from Asia that cannot be tracked to a specific end user.

Despite all their efforts, the investigators are on the spot and have to watch helplessly as a girl disappears again after a week. After the child's school bag is found and after a DNA comparison the hair on it comes from Kai Anschütz, the search for the man is in full swing. Bienzle has always defended Anschütz 'innocence because there was no evidence against him other than suspicions. Therefore, he is deeply affected that he should have been so wrong. Due to the quick search, Anschütz can be found and arrested. During interrogation, the accused vehemently denied ever having abused children. Bienzle doesn't know what to do, but starts to ponder when Gächter speaks about Anschütz 'probation officer. Without further ado, he plays the song to the music box to Anschütz, who then declares that he always heard this melody from Gunter Heinze. After Bienzle was able to convict his colleague Hartwin Grossmann of having manipulated the hair sample just so that he was right with his suspicion against Anschütz, the search focused on the probation officer Heinze. With a large contingent of the police, his apartment is stormed, in which he actually holds Ulrike Weber, who can be freed unharmed. When he was arrested, Heinze himself declared that he was glad that it was over.

background

The shooting of Bienzle and his worst case took place from March 10 to April 8, 2005 in Stuttgart , Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden under the working titles Bienzle and the Beast and Bienzle and the Song of Death .

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on February 25, 2007, 8.41 million viewers watched the program, which corresponded to a market share of 22.5 percent.

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff writes for Kino.de : “Even in his eleventh 'Bienzle-Tatort', director Hartmut Griesmayr doesn’t let any hectic pace arise, but he stages the big wrong track of the film so inelegantly that you immediately know: the music teacher in his theater group the two murdered girls were involved, it was definitely not. On the other hand, it becomes all the more clear what consequences a false arrest has for those affected, because 'something always gets stuck'. So all in all a completely normal, unspectacular Stuttgart crime thriller, which you normally wouldn't bother about; if it weren't for Bienzel's farewell. "

At Die Welt , Franz Solms-Laubach writes: “Where others rely on big effects, exaggerated facial expressions and gestures, Steck always takes a back seat. A hum, a look, a small movement are enough for him to show the viewer what Bienzle is feeling and thinking right now. People in Swabia are economical, even with facial expressions. It is the minimalism, the tendency to understatement, that the crime scene without Steck and his character Bienzle will lack. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filming locations at the Internet Movie Database , accessed on March 17, 2016.
  2. ↑ Audience rating at tatort-blog.de, accessed on March 17, 2016.
  3. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: Bienzle and his most severe case at kino.de, accessed on March 17, 2016.
  4. ↑ Corpses pave their way at welt.de, accessed on March 17, 2016.
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